Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics
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- 194
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- 109
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- bogdanoff_2
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- Oct 30, 2026
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- tibleiz.net
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Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 1, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 99 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #10 of 30, reached on Nov 2, 03:07 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 2, 16:22 UTC.
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Is anyone doing more with assembler language lately? I have this crazy idea to do a hail mary codex ralphing session to convert an IoT product to assembler so as to aggressively reduce the flash and ram usage. probably a pipe dream, but if my old mentor could build a diet planner on an 80-byte RAM PIC, galaxy-brained…
I'd like to come up with some constructive comments, but I find everything so inconsistent and alien to me... For example, variable declarations use the pattern <colon> <type>, as in var a: Int32 But literals follow the opposite syntax, as in a = Int32: 42 The return type of a function is introduced by : in func…
Surprisingly, the most irritating nitpick for me is the choice of the file extension — surely that should've been ".cu", not ".co"? If I were developing an e.g. Iron programming language (hypothetically — although perhaps so named a language already exists), I'd pick ".fe" in a heartbeat. Then again, I'm the kind of…
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Is Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 2, 16:22 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics reached?
#10 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 2, 03:07 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 1, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (99 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
194 points and 109 comments; submitted by bogdanoff_2 on Oct 30, 2026.